Osho: Bliss is your Creation
Wolfgang Doelz
Osho initiiert einen Sannyasin. Er gibt ihm einen Sannyas-Namen und
erklärt ihm dessen Bedeutung:
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This will be your new name: Swami Anand Sarjan.
Anand means *bliss*, Sarjan means *creation*.
Man is the creator of whatsoever he lives in.
Hell or heaven, it is *you* who creates it.
This is one of the most fundamental laws of life to be understood,
and once this is understood you become a master of your own.
We create misery, we create happiness.
The *thought* becomes the *thing*:
whatsoever we start *thinking*,
sooner or later starts *happening*.
Thought is the seed.
People go on thinking that *somebody else* is making them miserable;
then they can never get rid of that misery.
Because what can you do if somebody else is creating it
unless he stops? -
and that is beyond you!
And there are *millions* of people.
*One* may stop; *others* may start creating misery for you.
There is no way out then, there is no exit.
One is surrounded by a China Wall,
one cannot get out of it.
That's how people think:
What can they do? -
it is *fate* that is creating misery.
It is *their past lives' karmas* that are creating misery.
It is *God* who is punishing them
or it is the *society* or the *economical structure* or the *politics*.
But it is always *somebody else*.
Hence you go on missing the secret of changing your life.
It is *you*, nobody else, it is *absolutely* you.
Once this sinks deep into your heart
you can start changing your life
because then it is within your hands.
All alternatives are available, you can choose.
You can be *miserable*; that is your choice.
In the same situation, in exactly the same situation,
you can choose to be *happy* and you will be.
Try it.
Just choose to be happy and suddenly you will see:
the perspective has changed.
Now you are not looking at the thing in the old way.
Your vision is different, your gestalt is different.
The same thing has been giving you so much misery for so long
and suddenly it makes no impact on you.
On the contrary, it thrills you and gives you great joy.
You have chosen it.
Slowly, slowly, trying in life again and again,
one attains to an inner confidence, an inner certainty:
"Yes, it is *I*."
And God is always helping you.
Whatsoever you say
He says "Yes, boss!"
If you say "I am miserable",
He says "Yes, boss!"
"I am in pain!"
He says "Yes!"
You say "I am blissful",
He says "Yes".
Because God is not separate from you,
He is your very ground.
So whatsoever you *want* to be,
He simply makes Himself available and you *become* that.
And when you become that,
you start *suffering* or you start *enjoying*.
Once this is seen
- "I am the master of my hell and heaven" -
then another insight arises:
"If I *want* to drop both, I *can* drop both."
That is *nirvana*, that is the ultimate creation, *enlightenment*.
It is neither pain nor pleasure.
It is utter quiet, it is silence, it is nothingness.
That too you can create
but that is possible only when you have learned
that *misery* is your creation,
that *happiness* is your creation.
First start changing misery into happiness.
*Always affirm happiness,*
*never affirm any negative thought.*
Millions of thoughts are crossing your mind.
Only that thought which you *choose* becomes *real*.
Scientists say that fifty thousand thoughts
pass through an ordinary, average man's mind in one day.
But only a few will become *real*
and those will be the thoughts which you *choose*.
Once you have chosen, you are trapped,
and then it becomes difficult
because it creates a vicious circle.
If you have chosen *misery*
it becomes easier for you to choose misery again;
it becomes a practice.
You get more and more deeply into misery.
You start descending into hells
and each hell takes you into a deeper hell.
Once you start choosing *happiness*,
you start rising upwards
and each happiness makes you more confident to claim more,
to choose something even better.
Both these choices make you capable one day of *not choosing at all*.
Thoughts pass by like traffic
and you stand aloof.
That is the state of *meditation, non-choosing, choiceless awareness*.
Then neither pain nor pleasure happens.
Nothing happens.
When *nothing* happens,
that is the greatest thing, the greatest experience.
You have arrived home.
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aus: Let Go! - Darshan Diary
26. April 1978